The Lady Vanishes – Rediscovering ‘My Name is Julia Ross’ (US 1945 – 65 mins)

- Genre: Mystery / Thriller
- Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
- Starring: George Macready, May Whitty, Nina Foch
An edge-of-your-seat suspenser, ‘My Name is Julia Ross’ is a fast moving melodrama that I’d never heard of until fairly recently, but it turned out to be a very entertaining discovery.
The standard plot is pretty simple. After taking a job in London as a live-in secretary for the elderly Mrs Hughes (Dame May Whitty), Julia Ross (Nina Foch) awakens a couple of days later to find herself holed-up in a mansion in Cornwall. It transpires that Whitty’s knife-wielding son Ralph (George Macready) has killed his wife and needs Julia (who resembles her) to be killed, but made to look like …
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